Baling-press



(No Model.)

T.- J. OORNING.

BALING PRESS.

No. 333,335. PatentedMay 24, 1337.

I vwemtoz $0 M 61-330m W I FFIQE THOMAS J OORNING, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.

BALING -PRESSfl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,365, dated May 24, 1887. Application filed March 14, 1587. Serial No. 230,814. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. OORNING, a citizen of the United States, residing at San J os, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Baling-Presses; and I do hereby declare that the following is. a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will'euable others skilled in the art to which it appertains. to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in baling-presses, the several features of which will be fully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

The invention involves the mechanism for actuating the plunger.

The mechanism is illustrated in the accompauying drawings, in which Figure I is a side view of the baling-press with a portion of the side cut away. Fig. II is a top view of the same with a portion cut away on the line a", Fig. 1. Fig. III is an under view of the pitman, spring, and its attachment to a broken portion of the plungerhead.

Like letters designate like parts throughout the several views.

The frame A is in general construction like the horizontal baling-presses in use. It consists of an open frame to the right to support the operative parts, a top opening, 13, through which to feed the material, and a compressionehamber with orifices in the sides, through which the wires are introduced to do the binding. The plunger 0 is like a quadrangular boX with an open end, and to the closed end of which is attached the bearing-block E. To this block the pitman I) is held by a pin. The pitman is of the form shown at Fig. 3, the ends being rounded vertically. To the under side is attached the slotted pinm. Beneath the bearing-block E, against the plungerhead, is attached the block F, and to this is secured the flat steel spring G, whose free end occupies the slot of the pitmanpin. The plate J is supported on the shaft L, which is held in bearings I, attached to the top and bottom of the frame. To this plate is to be attached the beam K, and to this a horse is hitched for the purpose of operating the baling-press. The plate J has a plane surface at a right angle to the beam or pole, with bear ing-notches s at both ends and projections t beyond the bearing-surfaces. The function of the flat spring Gris to hold the pitman at the longitudinal vertical center of the frame and that of the axis of the shaft. The effect of this is to hold the free end of the pitman against the plane surface of plate I and cause the rounded end thereof to enter the notches as the same comes opposite. At Fig. I the plunger is shown in the position as it is thrown back by the resilience of the compressed hay, the head of the pitman resting in the notch. The dotted lines at Fig. II show the position of the plunger when the stroke is completed and is about being disengaged from the plate by the points t, bearing against the side of said pitman. When the rebound of the plunger takes place, the movement is arrested by the blocks, 0 0, attached to the bottom and top of the frame.

The operation is thus: The plunger beingin position, as shown in Fig. I, hay is put into the chamber, a half-revolution is given by the operative beam, the rebound carrying the plunger and the pitman back along the face of the plate to enter the notch, and the beam is given a'reverse movement, and thus the hay is packed within the compressionchamber, and from which the bale is withdrawn through a suitable door.

I would not be understood as restricting my invention to the mechanism asshown and described, but would have it understood that the spring-actuated pitman in its relation to the face and notches of the operating beam or lever is the essential feature of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire ,to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a baling-press, the draft-pole, com- 5 prising beam and plate, and the pivotal spring-actuated pitman, combined with the plunger, substantially as set forth.

2. In a baling-press, the combination of the operating-beam K with plate J, having 103 notches s, pitman D, bearing-block E, plunger 0, block F, and flat spring G, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affiX my signature in presence of 105 

